A Monument For The Soldiers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE EGHGIEJE AKEKEEEE ALELMNEN ABEEOEPE| A monument for the Soldiers | A |
| And what will ye build it of | B |
| Can ye build it of marble or brass or bronze | C |
| Outlasting the Soldiers' love | B |
| Can ye glorify it with legends | D |
| As grand as their blood hath writ | E |
| From the inmost shrine of this land of thine | F |
| To the outermost verge of it | E |
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| And the answer came We would build it | E |
| Out of our hopes made sure | G |
| And out of our purest prayers and tears | H |
| And out of our faith secure | G |
| We would build it out of the great white truths | I |
| Their death hath sanctified | E |
| And the sculptured forms of the men in arms | J |
| And their faces ere they died | E |
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| And what heroic figures | A |
| Can the sculptor carve in stone | K |
| Can the marble breast be made to bleed | E |
| And the marble lips to moan | K |
| Can the marble brow be fevered | E |
| And the marble eyes be graved | E |
| To look their last as the flag floats past | E |
| On the country they have saved | E |
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| And the answer came The figures | A |
| Shall all be fair and brave | L |
| And as befitting as pure and white | E |
| As the stars above their grave | L |
| The marble lips and breast and brow | M |
| Whereon the laurel lies | N |
| Bequeath us right to guard the flight | E |
| Of the old flag in the skies | N |
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| A monument for the Soldiers | A |
| Built of a people's love | B |
| And blazoned and decked and panoplied | E |
| With the hearts ye build it oft | E |
| And see that ye build it stately | O |
| In pillar and niche and gate | E |
| And high in pose as the souls of those | P |
| It would commemorate | E |
James Whitcomb Riley
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